I have a Kindle Fire HD 7", which I purchased in September 2013. Its been working fine until recently. About a month ago I downloaded the 1Mobile Market 3rd party app (likely my first mistake) so I culd play Pokemon ROMs on my Kindle. This caused no problems initially. Recently I noticed it continually causing my downloads from Silk to fail (PDFs mostly) so I uninstalled it. Still no problems. The other day (about a week or two after uninstalling) I was playing a Pokemon ROM and when I quit out it kept opening random apps instead of going to the Home screen. after I kept hitting the home button and getting random apps instead for awhile, I restarted my Kindle, hoping that might help. Now, instead of doing that, it just auto closes any app I try to use and most menu options. If I swipe down, go to "More", then "Applications" (in an attempt to see if any running applications are causing the issue it goes immediately back to home. I've tried restarting it several times to no avail. Now I can't even read any books for more than a few seconds. Any advice or am I just screwed?
Can you post a link to a logcat?
Are you rooted? Custom recovery? If so, I'd recommend wiping cache & Dalvik
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I had a very odd experience with my tablet last night. After a few hours of non-use, I picked it up to begin reading. Went to adjust the brightness level and pulled down the settings bar. I noticed the bar was behaving strange, like as soon as I pulled down, it would snap right back up. There was also a flicker at the bottom of the shade. Unable to access anything there, I went into my app drawer to do something else. As soon as I went in, things got even stranger. Apps began opening themselves. Two games in particular, Gunman Clive and Lep's World 2. I would watch as the game opened by itself, then once inside the game, I would hit quit. The app, would immediately re-open.. This happened several times over. After the first app stopped doing that, it began opening the second app. Tried closing that one several times the same way and watched it re-open the same way. I decided to go further in Lep's World once it opened again. I watched as the character began jumping(but, not walking) on his own. Exited this app. Next my Kindle opened up the settings for LMT launcher on it's own. It did this same thing with these 3 apps, almost as if something(or someone) has compromised by tablet. I could physically see the buttons being pushed for these apps and it was not being pushed by my finger.
Fed up, I attempted to restart via Quickboot. Just as soon as I opened Quickboot, instead of me having a chance to pick one of the boot options, it would pick Hot Boot for me. This happened a couple of times, but finally I was able to do a full reboot. After the full reboot, My Kindle started up normally and there seems to be no sign of anything like this happening since.
Has anyone ever heard of anything like this before? Please tell me I'm not hacked. I'm running hashcode's CM 10 with Nova Launcher if that makes any difference.
Sounds like your digitizer went nuts
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Try installing this app and enabling screen touches. At least then you can see where the Kindle is touching itself (as weird as that sounds:what: ). Just a thought.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2124384
>>Sent from my homebuilt TARDIS running Android 4.3... Or maybe it's a rooted Kindle Fire HD running ChameleonOS
I have a problem that's almost identical to something similar. My settings bar behaves strangely and I get the flicker at the bottom of the shade. My apps start behaving strangely. It seems to happen about once a week. I believe it happens after my apps have been automatically updated. To solve my problem I run Clean Master app and select the memory boost and junk folders tiles. After the cleaning the problem goes away until it happens again.
Was your device connected to a wall charger when misbehaving? With some power adaptors it detects more than a touch for every real touch, which could explain the weird behaviour you described.
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I have had similar problems in the past and, odd as it may seem, my issue was a dirty screen. You see, I noticed that several "touches" were occurring on a particular area of the screen, the area taken up by the d pad in minecraft pe. I believe that the accumulation of fingerprints and skin oils was enough for the screen to recognize a touch. It still happens from time to time and always stops when I clean my screen. I've found that a little bit of purel and a soft napkin work great. Good luck!
Rooted my Note 3 with Towel root, however I noticed a couple of minor problems with some apps. For example, after I use Chrome a couple of times and it works fine, I then try to go to a website and Chrome just hangs with a white screen. I have to go into the list of all apps and close Chrome, open again, and it works fine for a few times then starts the hanging again.
Also noticed that the Amazon Kindle app works hit and miss. Sometimes I run it , open a book and get the "Unfortunately Kindle Stopped Working" error message. Interestingly enough, I downloaded the Kindle for Samsung app from Samsung and it works fine.
Had a couple of issues initially with Titanium backup. It would not find the SD card and save backups to it. But I found the fix elsewhere on this site (had to modify the platform file).
I tried uninstalling and re-installing the apps that are giving problems but they still have the same errors after re-installing. I'll eventually figure out what is going on but just thought I would mention the issues.
Anyone else having similar issues?
I've been running Lineage 13 for 6 months, but the phone mysteriously got into a boot loop yesterday, so I had clear the local data and re-install the apps from the Playstore
However I found that every time I installed the nRFToolbox app (by Nordic Semiconductors) (Who are a reputable company), that when the App installed, it crashed a load of internal OS services e.g. PlayServices and all sorts of Google services.
If I rebooted the phone it appeared to work OK, but if I went into the "Apps" in Settings, the phone hung again, and I had to reboot it.
I tried updating to the latest unofficial Lineage 13, but that didnt help, so I've now installed the official Lineage 14, and this seems to have solved the problem.
But I don't quite see how a single app can kill so many core services, and I prefer to stay on Android 6 (Lineage 13), because of XPosed and specifically XPrivacy.
(BTW. I know XPosed is now supposed to work on Android 7, but I didnt think XPrivacy will every get ported to work with the updated version of Xposed - at least according to the developer)
Does anyone have any insight into why this app can hang the phone
I don't know, why this APP makes your phone crash, but i had similar problems when installing greenifys latest app and two days ago, i updated some apps ending in bootloops.... I am using unofficial Lineage 13 with xposed and xprivacy too
I run stock OS but have this same issue when updating any big and heavy apps such as Snapchat, Google app and FB Messenger for the past 6 months at least. The app starts to update but then will crash in the installing phase often giving an error such as "503 can't be updated", at which point multiple Google services will crash endlessly the only way to stop the crash is hold down power to force the phone to reboot.
I have reset the phone several times but after setting up the phone and updating all the apps the first update to one of those apps the issue happens again (the app always installs from scratch ok it's only it's updates that cause it)
A sort of fix I have been using (because it doesn't 100% always work) is when you see an update for the app you know will cause the crash first update all the other apps manually leaving only the problem app, then close all apps go to Settings > Storage & USB > Internal storage and clear the Cached data, then power cycle the phone, let the phone boot and complete all it's background tasks it does after booting, then open Play Store and click Update on the offending app then put the phone down and leave it until the app either updates or causes the crashes. If this doesn't work then waiting 24 hours and doing the same steps seems to work.
I am certain it comes from either an app update (probably from Play services or the Play Store app) or maybe from having the phone encrypted which does make the phone run slower especially over time. (May or may not be related but I've noticed on my phone if I factory reset it then after setting it up and updating all the apps I try to encrypt the phone the phone will 'break' and will boot loop forcing a reset from the boot loader, however if I set up the phone, don't update any apps then encrypt it completes successfully, all the apps will then update ok and the phone then functions as you would expect)
All in all this issue is incredibly frustrating!
I am finding that my apps that send notifications, specifically that I send through LIghtflow, are either not notifying, or doing so 30 min. to an hour late.
I am also finding that installing as well as uninstalling apps are quite slow.
POwer saver is not on; battery optimization is not on for the offending apps; they are set to run in the background.
Anyone else experiencing this? Or any suggestions?
Regarding the slow downloads, I am finding the download finishes (according to the status bars, etc), but it then goes into a state of Install Pending. Can't find anything on that.
For anyone who cares, I have it resolved for the time being.
After 2 factory resets, I remembered back to the days i used to root my phones, and remembered that one strongly recommended task in that process was to delete cache.
So I did a final factory reset and deleted the cache also and all seems to be good.
When this crops up again I will try the cache delete w/o a factory reset and see how it goes.
Not getting much help here but I'll keep this thread upgraded.
It is again not working right. Lightroom is either not notifying or it's doing it 30 minutes late.
Play store downloads but then doesn't install for a period of time.
I'm beginning to think something is wrong with the phone.
This thing is driving me nuts. Following is what's going on, and have seen:
I've gone through 4 factory resets. All works find at first. Having decided that maybe there is an app interfering, I installed an app or two, tested, repeat...with delays between repeats. All seems fine.
But then late into the second day, w/o any installs, I goes haywire again. Symptoms are:
I use DGT GTD for my ToDo list. First thing I will notice is that when I add a new task, it will NOT show up in the widget list, and at the same time it stops notifications.
All apps stop sending notifications to Lightflow...or LIghtflow does not recognize the notifications. Not sure which is the case.
When add a new app on the Play Store, it downloads as quick as normal, but then it takes forever to install.
I installed AVAST, and checked for viruses. Came back clean.
I suspect it could be a phone problem. My Mate 9 works fine right now, with all the same apps. But, when a factory reset results in it working (at least during the short time a tech would evaluate), the phone can't be exchanged.
If anyone has any thoughts. I'm all ears. I'll keep posting, hopefully, ultimately, with a resolution. Maybe it'll help someone.
I have been experiencing a problem with my X4 lately. Suddenly, Google Apps such as Youtube, Google Chrome, Youtube Music, Play Store, even GMAIL started to crash. Out of the blue, they just close, sometimes they close and report that "app x stopped working", and often "Google Play Services stopped working" and this pretty much makes the cellphone unusable, the apps won't open anymore, not even a reboot would solve it. Sometimes apps as Facebook, Instagram, the Native Camera, even SETTINGS will crash. Following this crashes, sometimes the cellphone will just shut off the display and crash, only coming back after a forced reboot (BUT, as strange as it may seem, the long press on the power button works just fine and the display wakes but only showing shut off and reboot options).
I was experiencing this problem with the stock Android 9 ROM. I then removed my google account, wiped it, did a factory reset for a couple times, did not work. I flashed the stock ROM, but the problems only got worse. Then i flashed the Pixel Experience w/ Android 10 using the latest TWRP, same problems happened, with a clean installation, wiped everything. I used it for a couple of months, but the crashes were just increasing over time.
I then installed the Lineage OS 18.1 on Android 11 on my X4; Same thing, clean installation, wiped everything, removed all Google Accounts, flashed the latest GAPPS. Boy oh boy, it was smooth like butter on the beginning (i recommend this ROM very much), one week goes by and the same crashes come back again, every once in a while. I just can't figure what could be causing the crashes, same issues with 4 different roms!
If anyone please has experienced this or know how could i fix it, it would help me very much. Thank y'all for your attention.
Next time it happens i will try and take a screenshot to post here.
Did you ever get a solution to this? I am having the same issue.